Background and Research Problems What is IMS
A scenario supported by IMS Main advantages to network and users
Session control in IMS
IMS-level Registration
Registration Procedure Authentication flows during registration
IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)
Jun Lei Prof. Dr. Dieter Hogrefe
Telematics group University of Goettingen, Germany
Basic Session Setup
IMS session establishment call flow IMS INVITE procedure
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) General IMS Architecture
Basic Architecture of the IMS
IMS-related Entities and Functionalities
Session control and routing family: CSCF User data related: HSS , SLF Service related: AS , MRFC, MRFP Interworking elements: BGCF, MGCF, IM-MGW, SGW, Support entities: THIG, SEG, PDF IMS Charging Architecture
IMS Enabled Services Conclusions and topics for future studies References
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What is IMS?
Background and Research Problems
Users demand for multimedia services is rising, dialing & talking is a narrow subset of networking Until now network operators develop the services often lacking of new, innovate ideas based on using the traditional network capabilities Merging the Internet with the cellular worlds
CS domain PS domain QoS, charging and integration of different services are not available for 3G users through the PS domain
A scenario supported by IMS
Anna
Call to Bob for business
Bob
Accept the call Activate the video mode
Answer
Initiate a push to talk group session
How can we provide end users new, exciting services to satisfy the subscribers’ demands
IP multimedia subsystem is ideally placed to fill the gap IMS is used to offer Internet services everywhere and at any time using cellular technologies
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A scenario supported by IMS (Cont‘ d)
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